Letter-writer Tom Fields wants us to know that “Two men or two women are not the same as a man and a woman.” After 45 years of marriage, my wife and I think we can agree on that. However, we question the following: “Heterosexual marriage overcomes the fundamental division between human beings (male and female), it brings oneness out of difference … .” If that is true, why do 40 to 50 percent of heterosexual marriages end in divorce?

Fields goes on to say that heterosexual “union produces the next generation. Same-sex marriage doesn’t do that.” What about the same-sex couples who raise the offspring of heterosexual couples who, for whatever reason, don’t raise their own children?

Fields concludes by hoping that the court will soon rule “in favor of reality.” The court has done that. The reality is that humanity includes both heterosexuals and homosexuals. The court recognizes that under the law, all should be treated equally.

Fred Knauke, Denver

This letter was published in the June 26 edition.

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